Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there were no casualties after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake on the Richter and tsunami scale in Kamchatka, Russia. The number of injured people was not mentioned.
The tsunami warning system functions "in time" so that people are evacuated when needed.
"In general, the resilience of the building earthquake is proven, so thankfully there were no casualties," Peskov said as quoted by CNN, Wednesday, July 30.
The Russian government lifted a tsunami threat warning on the Kamchatka Peninsula, where the earthquake occurred, according to state media TASS.
Severo-Kurilsky district, located on the southern tip of the peninsula, has also lifted its tsunami warning, the government said in a post on Telegram.
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Earlier in the district, a tsunami wave hit the coastline, tearing the boat from its mooring and dredging the storage container, according to TASS.
Meanwhile, Valery Limarenko, governor of Russia's Sakhalin region, announced that there would be no more tsunami threats in the North Kuril Islands, the volcanic islands south of the peninsula in Russia's far east.
"The situation is starting to stabilize" and "all emergency services remain on standby," he said.
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